Health & Medicine Africa

Beating malaria: What can be done with shrinking funds and rising threats  Daily Nation

[Ghanaian Times] Ghana recorded a reduction in malaria-related deaths by 97 per cent between 2014 and 2024, the Minister of Health, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has said.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Malaria has been a persistent national emergency in Nigeria, an entrenched crisis that continues to affect the health and wellbeing of families and communities. In 2022 alone, the disease claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, most of them children, draining the country’s economic vitality. The battle has been long and arduous, marked by cycles of progress and setbacks. As the global community celebrates this year’s World Malaria Day, with the theme “Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”,

[Premium Times] “One day, some of the medical teams came for another vaccination in the village, but my husband still refused to let the only two surviving children we have be immunised.”

[ENA] Addis Ababa, — Uganda declared an end to the Ebola Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) outbreak after completing a 42-day mandatory countdown without any new confirmed cases reported, less than three months after the virus was detected in the capital, Kampala.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Preparations are in top gear for the 10th Annual Scientific Diabetes Conference, set to take place in mid-May in Naivasha.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Heath Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale urged Kenyans to enroll in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) under the new Social Health Alliance (SHA) in large numbers.

Health Workers in Sierra Leone Face Rising Mpox Infections  News Central TV

[WHO-AFRO] Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak, less than three months after the virus was confirmed in the capital Kampala.

[WHO-AFRO] Maputo — Filipe Basílio, officer in charge of monitoring and evaluation in Mozambique’s malaria programme in the northern Nampula Province recalls the laborious task of data collection and analysis in his day-to-day work: “All record-keeping tools were manual and it used to take a long time for the data to reach the Ministry, because community distributors had to submit their reports at the end of the day to their supervisor, who would then forward them to the district level, then to the provincial level,